Is the Met Office a Serious Scientific Organisation Any Longer? (Part II)

The Met Office has bamboozled us with phantom heat deaths, a fake 45°C forecast and a buried study that showed cleaner air – not CO2 – drove European warming. Does it have any credibility left?

This is Part II of a Paul Homewood’s piece on the Met Office. You can read Part I here.

Here are some more of the controversies dogging the Met Office in recent weeks.

Worse than the Great Storm of 1987?

In their State of the UK Climate Report 2025, recently published, the Met Office made the astonishing suggestion that Storm Eowyn, which hit Britain in January 2025, was worse than the Great Storm of 1987. They even produced this chart to “prove” it:

This is gaslighting of the highest order and an insult to all those who lost their lives in 1987.

Apparently, they say, the severity of the 1987 storm was down to the fact that trees were still in leaf. It was not really as bad as you thought!

So why does their chart imply Eowyn was worse?